LAGOS STATE FORESTRY LAW

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LIST OF LAWS OF LAGOS, [ALPHABETICAL]  

FORESTRY LAW

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PART 1 – PRELIMINARY

1.       Appointment of forestry officers

PART 2 – Special Provisions relating to Government Forest Reserves and Government Protected Forests

2.       Power to constitute reserves and protected forests

3.       Notification of intentions

4.       Notice of inquiry

5.       Duty of reserve settlement at inquiry

6.       Reserve settlement officer to have judicial powers

7.       Reserve settlement officer may sever or join claims

8.       Publications of judgment on completion of the inquiry

9.       Appeals from judgment of reserve settlement officer

10.     Order of the Commissioner constituting the forest reserve

11.     Power to extinguish or modify rights

12.     Reserve may be made to exclude areas over which claims are admitted

13.     Commissioner may close existing rights of way and water courses if alternatives exist

14.     Extinguishment and revival of rights

15.     Non-exercise of rights

16.     Rights to reserve may not be alienated without consent of the Commissioner

17.     No new rights to be acquired in land to be constituted a reserve except with approval

18.     Power to de-reserve

19.     Protected forests    

PART 3 – LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCIL PROTECTED FORESTS

20.     Power to withdraw protection

PART 4 – ADMINISTRATION OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCIL FOREST RESERVES

21.     Management of reserve

PART 5 – COMMUNAL FORESTRY AREAS

22.     Power to declare lands communal forestry area

23.     Notification

24.     Management and control

25.     Power to make rules for protection and management of communal forestry areas

26.     Power to vary or cancel declaration

PART 6 – GENERAL PROVISIONS

27.     Marking of boundaries

28.     Improvement of forests generally

29.     Prevention of offences

30.     Power to exempt certain classes and districts

31.     Forest produce required for public purposes

32.     Disposal of fees and royalties

33.     Saving of power of acquisition for public purposes

34.     Power to make regulations

35.     Power to exclude from regulations

36.     Power to make rules

37.     Acts prohibited in a forest reserve

38.     Saving in respect of section 37

39.     Penalty for illegal felling of timber, illegal installation of sawmills, etc.

40.     Offences in protected forests

41.     Seizure of certain forest produce

42.     Offences

43.     Arrest of suspected persons

44.     Innocent possession

45.     Onus of proof

46.     Authority to compound offences

47.     General penalty

48.     Additional penalty

49.     Institution and conduct of legal proceedings

PART 7

50.     Interpretation

51.     Saving as to existing forest reserves

52.     Citation

FORESTRY LAW

A LAW FOR THE PRESERVATION AND CONTROL OF FORESTS

[W.R.L. 1959, Cap.38. W.N. 17 of 1960. L.S.L.N. 16 of 1972]

[Commencement] [1st February, 1938]

LAWS OF LAGOS STATE

LAWS OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA